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Here's a real bummer of a story. It's about five days old, but I just found it . . .
FOXNews.com - Insufficient Evidence Could Force U.S. Navy to Return Suspected Pirates to Somalia - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
WASHINGTON — Questions emerged Friday about whether the U.S. Navy can continue to hold a group of suspected pirates captured on the high seas and kept for now in floating jail cells ringed with barbed wire.
At issue are nine men, probably Somalis, seized Thursday from a small skiff in the Gulf of Aden. . . .
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. . . there may insufficient evidence to hold the men for trial . . . some or all might be returned to Somalia.
If a case can be brought, it would be among the first under a new arrangement with Kenya to take on prosecution of suspected Somali pirates. |